A practical exploration of consultancy and history.The next ‘shamelessly’ Practical Seminar on 17 January will be an exposition and exploration of what it means to practically work with the impact and the dynamics of history when consulting with organisations or designing a change project. The semin...
I was invited recently to contribute to a collective book in memory of my late mentor and friend Professor Giovanni Mastroianni, who died in August 2016. This was intended as a collection of memories from his students from his native city Catanzaro (in Calabria, Southern Italy). I was asked for a fi...
Read about the symposium convened by Jean Neumann at this year’s Academy of Management Conference in Chicago.“I am grateful to you and your colleagues for supporting this endeavor, navigating TIHR pressures including the total life spaces of the whole authorship group. By showing up to speak on TIHR...
Juliet Scott, Festival Director looks back on the TIHR70 festival and announces ArchLive.Juliet Scott, Festival Director, Lead Curator of the TIHR archiving work and now Tavistockian[1] announces the launch of the Festival ArchLive with a personal account of her own memories and experiences of the f...
Bringing you news and photos from our Four Days in October.We have found a genuine pleasure in crafting our thank you letters this past week as an imaginative and reflective practice that has taken us back through the process of conceptualising and realising the four days of the festival. It has bee...
Notes from Festival Social Dreaming Matrices #1: Tue 17 Oct 2017Tuesday 17th October 10.30-11.45, Wellcome Collection Reading RoomHosts: Debra Noumair and Leslie Brissett (NB. We changed our designation from Facilitator to Host)Context:35 to 46 members presentGender distribution predominantly female...
Antonio Sama, TIHR Professional Partner and key contributor to the festival team and the ongoing archival work selects his stand out moments from the festival programme.Don’t forget to book your place at our festival centrepiece taking place on Thursday19th October – a symposium of four thought prov...
From the early planning stages of the festival the team met to decide where we would like the events to be hosted. It seemed obvious that the festival would take place in the home city of the Tavistock Institute, London and that we would use multiple venues, offering creativity and flexibility for t...
Juliet Scott, Festival Director continues to highlight workshops, performances and other events from across the different themes and explorations of the four-day programme.We are also pleased to bring news of a printable version of the programme to help you in selecting and booking events. Please no...
Reimagining Human Relations in Our Time –A festival celebrating 70 years of the Tavistock Institute17th – 20th October 2017Festival ProgrammeThere is a dedicated festival website with an online booking system and easy to view programme where you can curate your own festival experience. All events ar...
What Did You Dream About Last Night? During TIHR70, festival dreamers were invited to take part in our daily inquiry to explore what collective meanings we can find from sharing our overnight dreams and what they might tell us about our current shared experiences and understandings.The festival Soci...
Celebrating 70 years: Reimagining Human Relations in our TimePlease note that the call for contributions will now be open until Friday 26th May, 2017.Thank you if you have already submitted, we will begin planning the programme from here and hope the extension helps those who requested further time....
Joining the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) as a Researcher and Consultant in July 2015 was for me an exciting step into a more immediate social science practice. Having developed a career in academic anthropology and museology over the previous decade, this was not an incremental step...
This call is now closed.Thank you if you have already submitted, we will begin planning the programme from here and hope the extension helps those who requested further time.Taking place over four days, Reimagining Human Relations in our Time, will be a multi-sited event taking place in the public d...
Celebrating 70 years of becoming more humaneWe would like to invite you to join us for a four day festival that we promise will be as Tavistock as the Institute has ever been: experiential, interpretative, imaginative, interdisciplinary, rigorous, forward looking, learningful and above all participa...
Image Credit: Dreaming and the Dreamt, watercolour on Langton paper, 148 x 105 mm by Juliet Scott.It’s nearly six months since Friday 24th June when we kicked off the first series of Social Dreaming matrices in the Wellcome Library Reading Room. Brexit was unfolding, dreams were colourful and colour...
It’s nearly six months since Friday 24th June when we kicked off the first series of Social Dreaming matrices in the Wellcome Library Reading Room.Brexit was unfolding, dreams were colourful and colourless, uncertainty prevailed. The questions we took in to these were on dreams and archival practice...
Distraction surrounds us every day in work: from the ambient clatter and noise of the open plan office, to the ringing and beeping of phones, the flurry of emails, and chatter of colleagues. Today I’ve been thinking today about the nature of distraction at work, but particularly in archival work.Cat...
An exhibition of still life prints, drawings and paintings by Juliet Scott.Juliet Scott, Still Life and Object Relations B3(4), 2016,merged Monotype, oil on Somerset paper, 56 x 37.5 cmHelmsley Arts Centre, Yorkshire Private View: Sunday 9th October 12 – 2 pmThis exhibition in Helmsley Arts Centre, ...
Object Relations: an exhibition of still life prints, drawings and paintings by Juliet ScottHelmsley Arts Centre, YorkshireTuesday 4th October to Friday 28th October 2016Title image: Still Life and Object Relations B3(4) merged Monotype, oil on Somerset paper, 56 x 37.5 cmThis exhibition in Helmsley...